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Andy Borowitz | Trump Demands Poem on Statue of Liberty Be Revised to Exclude Shithole Countries

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12 January 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now:   Reader Supported News THE PROGRESS BAR IS THE SOURCE OF THE CONCERN - If that were moving a bit more quickly towards completion we would be quite a bit calmer. It would also allow us to focus on what we actually do, which is not fundraising. Small miracles can go a long way. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Andy Borowitz | Trump Demands Poem on Statue of Liberty Be Revised to Exclude Shithole Countries    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker   Borowitz writes: "Donald J. Trump demanded on Thursday that the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty be revised immediately to exclude nations he considered 'shithole countries.'"   READ MORE Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos to Unknown Buyers   Thomas Frank, BuzzFeed   Frank writes: "A BuzzFeed News review of every sale of a Trump-branded condominium in the United States provides the first co...

Week of January 8, 2018

Intrepid Report Newsletter We cannot keep publishing without your help. We have no paywalls or ads. Nor do we receive corporate or foundation funding. All we have is you to keep us publishing.  We  rely  on you to help us  pay our monthly expenses. So please Donate Monday Happy New Year By William Blum 2018 is going to be a fun, fun year. And to better prepare yourself for all the merrymaking here is a calendar of some of the more delightful things to look forward to. Don the Con’s excellent neocon adventure By Wayne Madsen Donald Trump, under the influence of three of the most rabid Zionists and pro-Israeli expansionists serving in the U.S. government, has adopted a foreign policy that could only have been dreamed about during the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney administration. Trump & Co.’s vile anti-immigrationism By Sheldon Richman U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna displayed an odious ho...

A tale of two democracies, India and USA

Dear Friend, This was one of the most eventful and traumatic days in recent history in two of the most powerful democracies in the world. The president of the 'democratic' USA called Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations as “shitholes countries”. This is the lowest a democracy can get.  In India, the most populous 'democracy' in the world, four Supreme Court judges publicly spoke against the Chief Justice of India and his way of functioning. It is unprecedented in India. Perhaps, things like this never happened any other democratic country. Unlike the Trump 'shithole' it gives an iota of hope. It gives us hope that at least there are some responsible persons in India who are ready to stand up for real democracy. They publicly said "democracy in India is at stake". It really is. It is the responsibility of all democratic minded persons to stand up for justice.  People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worri...